Re: [lojban] taiku ?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:02:08AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> 
> I've used {taiku} a few times in The Little Prince I believe,
> to translate French "ainsi", which means "in this manner".
> English would probably use "so" there, but all the "therefore"s
> seem much too strong to me.
> 
> I have also used {tai} quite often in Alice, coupled with {ja'e},
> to translate "so... that...", as in:
> 
> @c      Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into
> @c    the wood for fear of their hearing her;
> 
> i la alis tai cmila mu'i la'e di'u ja'e le nu bilga le nu bajra xruti
> le ricmei ki'u le nu abu terpa le nu ry tirna abu

Thats tai broda, not taiku.  Very different.

-Robin

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